Mercury Retrogrades.
So Mercury has stationed retrograde today at 11:02 am (PT).
Today, Sunday, November 9, 2025. Our day of rest.
Mercury – stationing (still in the sky) at 6 degrees/49 minutes Sagittarius. Where is this in everyone’s chart?
I assume by now everyone has their astrology chart & they gaze at it & the transits each day.
And so….
Mercury in its retrograde will re-enter Scorpio (Wednesday, Nov. 18) & after three weeks (it’s our last Mercury retro of 2025) station direct at 21 degrees Scorpio (Saturday, Nov. 29).
Again, where are these two signs & degrees in everyone‘s charts?

Notice, Thanksgiving will be under a Mercury retrograde.
What could that mean? How do we prepare?
What is a Mercury retro Thanksgiving like?
Meanwhile – notice if many people look back on traditional dishes, or foods from the past for Thanksgiving.
Notice also communication in the next three weeks.
What are the words, ideas, conversations about?
How is communication?
Remember, most of humanity has now turned inward.
The outer world is veiled & at times confusing & incomprehensible. Miscommunication & things being lost.
We understand when these things occur (& are careful with our communication) when we know Mercury (the messenger, the writer, the scribe, our thinking process, our communication) is looking back.
Mercury retrograde attempts to clear our minds from useless thoughts built up from our last Mercury retrograde. Thus the purpose of assessments.

So, we are in a state of evaluating, assessing, re-assessing, reviewing & contemplating beliefs, philosophies, travel & long distance plans & actually our entire world view (Sag).

The opportunities – The Mercury retro is a time of completing unfinished projects, clarifying plans & agendas, addressing past issues, deep study to explore new ideas, philosophies and cultures (Sag).
Under the Mercury/Scorpio retro, we explore power dynamics (power over or with?) & the wisdom teaching mysteries from long ago to the present.

Mercury retro, traversing both Sag & Scorpio, both signs are affected (along with their opposite signs). Also Gemini and Virgo (Mercury ruled) and esoterically Aries.

Reading about, studying the Journey to Shamballa & the signposts along the Way (the Kalachakra mandala – Wheel of time ). love, Risa